User talk:Ptm2018

Racism in the United States
Please read WP:MINOR. WP:RS, and WP:COI. That was far from a minor edit, and we cannot use Wikipedia as a source. As the author of the book you have a conflict of interest in using it as a reference, particularly when some of the content is not generally accepted. This can be seen as a type of self promotion. As far as I can tell your theory that racism is a type of sadism is not mainstream. I doubt this would be acceptable (at least as you present it as accepted fact) anywhere in the article, but certainly it does not belong in the lead. It is not appropriate to rewrite the lead of an article the way you did. The lead is a summary of the contents of the rest of the article, and major changes without prior talk page discussion can be quite contentious. You should discuss any proposed changes on the talk page and let other editors reach consensus on what and how the article should be changed, if at all. Meters (talk) 00:55, 24 July 2018 (UTC)